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Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
Kafka Streams Interactive Queries Go Prime Time
What is stopping you from using Kafka Streams as your data layer for building applications? After all, it comes with fast, embedded RocksDB storage, takes care of redundancy for you, […]
Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency
Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.9.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.9.0! This version includes support for multi-join statements, enhanced LIKE expressions, and a host of usability improvements. We’ll go through a few […]
Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […]
From Eager to Smarter in Apache Kafka Consumer Rebalances
Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about […]
Monitoring Confluent Platform with Datadog
Earning customer love is a core value at Confluent, and like all relationships, listening makes the love flourish. When it comes to monitoring, we’ve heard you, and we are pleased […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 1: Elastic Apache Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud
A few weeks ago when we talked about our new fundraising, we also announced we’d be kicking off Project Metamorphosis. What is Project Metamorphosis? Let me try to explain. I […]
Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Pull Queries in ksqlDB
One of the most critical aspects of any scale-out database is its availability to serve queries during partial failures. Business-critical applications require some measure of resilience to be able to […]
Walmart’s Real-Time Inventory System Powered by Apache Kafka
Consumer shopping patterns have changed drastically in the last few years. Shopping in a physical store is no longer the only way. Retail shopping experiences have evolved to include multiple […]
ksqlDB Execution Plans: Move Fast But Don’t Break Things
The ksqlDB Engineering Team has been hard at work preparing ksqlDB for production availability in Confluent Cloud. This is the first in a series of posts that deep dives into […]
Measuring Code Coverage of Golang Binaries with Bincover
Measuring coverage of Go code is an easy task with the built-in go test tool, but for tests that run a binary, like end-to-end tests, there’s no obvious way to […]
Broadcom Modernizes Machine Learning and Anomaly Detection with ksqlDB
Mainframes are still ubiquitous, used for almost every financial transaction around the world—credit card transactions, billing, payroll, etc. You might think that working on mainframe software would be dull, requiring […]
Confluent Platform Now Supports Protobuf, JSON Schema, and Custom Formats
When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.5
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of […]